Release Notes

v 4.16.0 (in development)

In development...

v 4.15.1 (16-jul-2010)

Edge case bug fix in thumbnail generation code

v 4.15.0 (15-jul-2010)

New plugin: Flash Video Player
New plugin: Flash Video List
Flash Video Lists can also be embedded via the Rich Text editor
Google Analytics summary now displayed in CMS
New feature: resource thumbnails
New feature: "User Message" storage and retrieval
New "add another resource" button to improve Resource Manager workflow
Major rewrite of PubliSite service (with added functionality and improved performance)
Improved performance when viewing resources
Improved HTML compression
Generated thumbnails are now cropped (previously they were squashed)
Minor Improvements to Page Creator plugin
Upgraded Telerik control suite
Various security enhancements
Fixed bug when trying to embed WMV files in Rich Text editor
Fixed bug when deleting pages with undeleted child pages
Fixed bug when deleting pages containing RSS Reader plugin data
Fixed bug when deleting pages containing RSS Feed Subscriber plugin data
Minor Smart List plugin bug fixes and enhancements
Minor User Biography plugin bug fixes
Minor IE6 bug fix
Various minor bug fixes

v 4.14.2 (24-may-2010)

Edge case bug fixes in Menu plugin

v 4.14.1 (31-mar-2010)

Minor multilingual update

v 4.14.0 (09-feb-2010)

Fixed bug in Search Entry plugin

v 4.13.0 (01-feb-2010)

Minor maintenance release

v 4.12.0 (26-jan-2010)

New feature: Additional Page Information
New feature: Quick Edit plugin
New feature: Template thumbnails
New 'Save and Publish' functionality when editing an existing page
Enhanced Logout plugin to allow redirecting upon successful logout
Editors now get warned when logging into PubliSite using an unsupported browser
Enhanced functionality of User Biography plugin (configurable avatar image sizes)
Enhanced admin user list to display age verification properties
Added filename column to resource browsers in Rich Text plugin
Increased number of Page Creator plugin content fields
Added a link manager to the Page Creator plugin
Pages created by Page Creator plugin can now be automatically assigned to a category
Improved Page Creator plugin notification email
Fixed bug in User Biography plugin
Numerous minor bug fixes

v 4.11.1 (14-jan-2010)

Minor modification to User Profile plugin

v 4.11.0 (17-nov-2009)

Major Features

New optional age verification fields for site users
New privacy settings for site users
New 'Latest Activity' panel
New 'Save as Copy' functionality when editing an existing page
Enhanced functionality of Page Creator plugin (additional fields, dynamic image resizing, optional text modes, plus more)

Minor Updates

Added multilingual support to User Profile plugin
Added multilingual support to Public Sign Up plugin
All user profile fields are now optional
Improved facility for adding internal site links via the Rich Text editor
Usernames may now be optionally sent along with passwords when using the 'forgotten password' functionality
Performance improvements when viewing/editing resources
Minor improvement to Rich Text editor workflow
Minor enhancement to Favourites plugin
Numerous minor enhancements

Bug Fixes

Bug fix in Cache Manager
Bug fix in user list filtering
Bug fix in Redirect plugin - it is now possible to redirect to child page of current page
Bug fix in 'reset password' functionality of Login plugin
Minor bug fix in Top Level Navigation plugin
Minor bug fixes in 'export user list to Excel' functionality
Numerous minor bug fixes

v 4.10.1 (05-oct-2009)

Minor bug fix in Menu plugin
Minor bug fix in Friendly URL functionality when running under IIS6

v 4.10.0 (15-sep-2009)

New plugin - User Biography plugin
New plugin - Send To Friend plugin
New plugin - Keywords plugin
New functionality - Simple Data Manager
New functionality - IP address flood protection
Improved Forum plugin - posts can now be displayed date ascending or descending
Improved Forum plugin - added optional moderation on all posts
Improved Forum plugin so that it can be used to manage comments for blog posts
Added optional CAPTCHA to Forum plugin
Added WYSIWYG editor to Page Creator plugin
Improved 'Page Published' email alerts - these can now be configured with both text and HTML alternate views
Minor bug fix in Email Subscriber plugin

v 4.9.1 (13-aug-2009)

New feature - SSL is now optional
New feature - user list can now be exported
Minor GUI bug fixes

v 4.9 (10-aug-2009)

Major Features

Major GUI improvements to CMS - new page list, navigation bar, Resource Manager, etc.(Ease of use and speed significantly increased).
Major new functionality - Restricted Editors
Admins now have the ability to create external editors with limited access
New plugin - Page Creator plugin
Allows restricted editors to create a simple page using the WYSIWYG editor
Added ability for site admins to manage User Groups
Create user groups with access to only certain parts of the site. Plus control public access to pages and documents.
Added functionality to control User Groups access to categories
Added functionality to control User Groups access to branches of the site
Added functionality to allow site admins to manage edit and view access to resources

Minor Updates

Improved Smart List plugin - document filesizes can now be displayed in results
Improved Smart List plugin - document icons can now be displayed in results
Improved edit mode of Redirect plugin
Improved way resources are inserted in the Rich Text plugin
Improved caching strategy for improved performance
Improved GUI for differentiating between UTC and current local time (Makes it easier to understand the server-time, when setting a page to publish at a certain time).
Improved error handling during page publishing/deleting process
Minor improvement to RSS Feed Reader plugin

Bug Fixes

Major bug fix in Forum plugin relating to deleting pages which use the Forum plugin
Minor bug fix in multilingual functionality of Login plugin
Minor bug fix relating to resource filenames
Minor bug fix in Friendly URL functionality
Minor bug fix in the way MP3 files are inserted in Rich Text plugin
Minor bug fix in Forum plugin relating to Restricted Editors

v 4.8 (01-jun-2009)

Major Features

New feature - RSS Feed Reader plugin. (Allows for the display of RSS (xml/atom) feeds on your site)
New feature - User Profile Images. (Upload your photo/image).

Minor Features

Improved functionality of Smart List plugin - now uses 'Display After Date' instead of 'Published Date'.
Improved HTML rendering of meta tags.
Improved configurability of Logout plugin.
Extended functionality of custom user info fields.

Bug Fixes

Fixed button focus bug in Search Entry plugin.
Fixed control visibility bug in RSS Feed Subscriber plugin.

v 4.7 (03-may-2009)

Minor Features

Minor GUI enhancements.
Minor Add Favourite plugin enhancement.
Minor Menu plugin enhancement.
Minor Smart List plugin enhancement.
Minor output caching enhancement.

Bug Fixes

Minor Friendly URL validation fixes.

v 4.6 (14-apr-2009)

Major Features

New feature - Friendly URLs. (You can name your pages to help with SEO)
Added CAPTCHA functionality to Public Sign Up Plugin. (Verfies a sign up is human to help avoid spam)

Minor Features

Minor bug fix in Bookmark Plugin.
Minor bug fix in Page Thumbnail logic.
Minor enhancements to CAPTCHA functionality.
Minor enhancement to Resource Manager.

v 4.5 (13-mar-2009)

Major Features

New feature - page thumbnails. (Create a page thumbnail which can be displayed in a smartlist).
New feature - "My Favourites" Plugins. (Allows registered users to make a selection of pages and share them).

Minor Features

Improvements to login process.
Improved "404: Page Not Found" error handling.
Enhancements to Search Entry Plugin.
Minor SEO improvements.
Minor bug fixes in Resource Manager.
Minor bug fix in Category List.

v 4.4 (02-feb-2009)

Major Features

New feature - RSS feeds. (Publish an RSS feed).
New feature - Widget plugin. (Easily add embed code to you site (youtube etc).)

Minor Features

Increased the amount of data that can be stored for users, including the introduction of custom data fields on site-by-site basis.
Wide-sweeping look n' feel changes to the GUI.
Enhanced site search: search can now be restricted by category; search now displays documents separately to pages; can now search by quoted search term, not just keywords.
Added ability to store additional HTML title for pages.
Added new CAPTCHA functionality to Feedback Form plugin.
Improved paging, sorting and filtering in Resource Manager lists.
Improved help system.
Improved user list page - user list now displays additional data, and is fully sortable/filterable/pageable.
Minor Search Engine Optimisation improvements.
Minor enhancement to Feedback Form plugin.

Bug Fixes

Minor bug fixes in Rich Text plugin.
Fixed bug where "add revision note" window was disappearing too quickly when saving a page.
Fixed bug in "resource used by page" functionality.

v 4.3.1 (16-dec-2008)

Minor Features

Upgraded anti-spam functionality of Feedback Form plugin.

v 4.3 (24-nov-2008)

Minor Features

Upgraded Rich Text plugin. Numerous enhancements, css improvements and bug-fixes.
Enhanced functionality of Feedback plugin.

v 4.2 (31-oct-2008)

Enhanced functionality of Menu plugin to make it more suitable in use as a sitemap.
Minor visual enhancement to Redirect plugin editor.
Fixed bug in Redirect plugin.

v 4.1 (22-oct-2008)

New plugin - 'Redirect'.
Major speed improvements.
Enhanced functionality of Forum plugin.
Enhanced multilingual support.
Added multilingual functionality to Top Level Navigation plugin.
Added multilingual functionality to Bread Crumb Navigation plugin.
Added multilingual functionality to Menu plugin.
Made login timeout duration more flexible.
Minor enhancements to page history feature.
Minor enhancement to Menu plugin.
Fixed bug in Single Image plugin.

v 4.0 (08-oct-2008)

New feature - multilingual website support. Manage site content in multiple languages.
Added multilingual functionality to Smart List plugin.
Added multilingual functionality to Single Image plugin.
Added multilingual functionality to Flash plugin.
Added multilingual functionality to Simple Text plugin.
Added multilingual functionality to Rich Text plugin.
Minor visual improvements in PubliSite backend.
Minor modification to page history functionality.
Fixed bug in Smart List plugin.
Fixed bug in Simple Text plugin.

v 3.15 (25-sep-2008)

Minor XHTML validation improvements.
Minor GUI enhancements.

v 3.14 (23-sep-2008)

New feature: Page History. Allows users to view a page's history, including all updates, notes on what was updated, what date a version was published, etc., and furthermore allows a user to "roll-back" a page to an old version.
XHTML validation improvements.

v 3.13 (15-sep-2008)

Minor bug fix to output caching mechanism.

v 3.12 (12-sep-2008)

New plugin: 'Smart List'.
New plugin: 'Bookmark This'.
New plugin: 'Feedback Form'.
CSS enhancement to News List plugin.
Visual enhancement to PubliSite backend.
Enhanced Logout plugin.
Added ability to hide pages and resources from site search.
Minor enhancement to Rich Text plugin (ability to enable/disable client script at template level).
Table styles bug fix in Rich Text plugin.
Security fix in Forum plugin.
Fixed bug which prevented carriage returns in forum posts.
Upgraded Telerik control suite.
Upgraded PubliSite to target Microsoft .NET framework 3.5 (previously 2.0)

v 3.11 (01-sep-2008)

Fixed bug in News Item List plugin.

v 3.10 (22-aug-2008)

Disabled plugin-level output caching for a number of plugins due to a rare bug.
Fixed bug in News Item List plugin.

v 3.9 (30-jul-2008)

Major improvements to output caching model.
Output caching bug fixes.
Fixed bug relating to creating tables in Rich Text editor.
Fixed Rich Text editor bug which occurred in Mac/Safari.
Fixed minor IE6 bug in Top Level Navigation plugin.
Some minor css fixes.

v 3.8 (22-jul-2008)

Enhanced functionality of Top Level Navigation plugin.
Enhanced functionality of News Item List plugin.
Enhanced functionality of Email Subscriber plugin.
Numerous bug fixes.

v 3.7 (11-jul-2008)

Built new NewsItemMiniSummary plugin, and deprecated old one (which is still in use by some sites). The new version of this plugin is much more flexible, and supports more data for each news item, e.g. thumbnail, summary, etc.
Enhanced functionality of Menu plugin.
Enhanced functionality of Rich Text plugin.
Added timestamp to page meta data to help with output cache troubleshooting.